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Pokemon Movie 4: Pokemon 4Ever-Celebi Voice of the Forest

Pokemon Company Release date: July 7th, 2001 Box Office: 40.8 Million Director: Kunihiko Yuyama Summary: This movie starts with a long montage chronicling Ash’s journey, suddenly Celebi erupts on the screen being chased through a forest by a Houndoom and a Scyther. A young man walking through the forest talks to a woman with greenContinue reading “Pokemon Movie 4: Pokemon 4Ever-Celebi Voice of the Forest”

Pokemon 207: The Kecleon Caper

Pokemon Company Airdate: July 5th, 2001 Summary: A blimp is heading towards a big air station down the road, our heroes see it and run to its landing where they learn that the blimp is flying around the world. The attendant of the ship asks for a Pokemon doctor and Brock volunteers himself to helpContinue reading “Pokemon 207: The Kecleon Caper”

Pokemon 206: Right On, Rhydon!

Pokemon Company Airdate: June 28th, 2001 Summary: Our heroes are sleeping by the lake when a swimming Rhydon jumps out of the water to Ash’s surprise, huh?! Misty and Brock don’t believe his story until a woman named Pietra confirms Ash’s story. Pietra takes our heroes to a mountain pass where she is trying toContinue reading “Pokemon 206: Right On, Rhydon!”

Pokemon 205: The Screen Actor’s Guilt

Pokemon Company Airdate: June 21st, 2001 Summary: Our heroes are still on their way to Olivine City when they meet a rushing crowd of screaming ladies. Suddenly, a Bieberesque guy in a bucket hat drops them a Smoochum and tells them to hold it as they run off away from the crowd. Smoochum is gettingContinue reading “Pokemon 205: The Screen Actor’s Guilt”

A Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway

Published: 1929 (Scribner) Ernest Hemingway’s novel, A Farewell to Arms, reads like a long sip of whiskey that burns the throat while in the same turn calming the senses. Immersed in tales of the Italian Front of WWI, I read each short chapter staring out at a lake, fitting for a novel that is setContinue reading “A Farewell to Arms-Ernest Hemingway”

Pokemon TV Special: Mewtwo Returns

Pokemon Company Airdate: December 30th, 2000 Summary: This hour-long tv special starts with Mewtwo reviewing the key events from the first Pokémon movie (see “Movies” section for that review). Mewtwo acknowledges after this review that Giovanni has been looking for him ever since that movie ended. One of Giovanni‘s henchman alerts him that they found MewtwoContinue reading “Pokemon TV Special: Mewtwo Returns”

The Painted Veil-W. Somerset Maugham

Published: 1925 (Heinemann) Summary: W Somerset Maugham’s novel The Painted Veil is one of those novels that, while not having any real “shock value” or plot twists which are needed to sustain a certain readership, sustain the reader’s attention with perpetual sadness and disappointment. Not the disappointment in a character you learn to love, butContinue reading “The Painted Veil-W. Somerset Maugham”

A Pale View of Hills-Kazuo Ishiguro

Published: 1982 (Faber and Faber) Summary: A Pale View of Hills is a haunting novel about the lengths at which our subconscious will go to unburden ourselves from the miseries of life. Set in Nagasaki, author Kazuo Ishiguro’s birthplace, the author explores the emotional craters which line the city after the atomic bombing of August 9, 1945. BlurringContinue reading “A Pale View of Hills-Kazuo Ishiguro”

Lord of the Flies-William Golding

Published: 1954 (Faber and Faber) Setting: A deserted island Summary: Lord of the Flies is a seminal novel in the old canon of high school literature classes, but unlike many of its mid-century contemporaries (see: Catcher in the Rye, a book I enjoyed as a middle schooler, but as I get older I find it less and lessContinue reading “Lord of the Flies-William Golding”

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running-Haruki Murakami

Published: 2007 (Bungeishunju) Setting: Japan, Greece, Cambridge U.S. Summary: Haruki Murakami’s running memoir starts with the saying: “suffering is optional,” and ends with his proposed epitaph: “at least he never walked.” Murakami is equally interested in systems and experience. Running is the metaphysical key that unlocks the rest of the body and mind, and the way you trainContinue reading “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running-Haruki Murakami”